{"id":4166,"date":"2014-03-14T06:32:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T06:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/14\/fleetwood-mac-and-the-rolling-stones-earn-more-than-one-direction-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T06:32:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T06:32:16","slug":"fleetwood-mac-and-the-rolling-stones-earn-more-than-one-direction-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/03\/14\/fleetwood-mac-and-the-rolling-stones-earn-more-than-one-direction-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones earn more than One Direction in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8b\/Fleetwood_Mac_2009.jpg\/250px-Fleetwood_Mac_2009.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"130\" \/><br \/>Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones are the only British bands to break into    the top ten of an annual list ranking recording artists by their US earnings    for 2013, earning more than younger superstars One Direction. The list, compiled by American magazine Billboard, sees Fleetwood Mac ranked    tenth with earnings of $19.1m, while the Stones came fifth with $26.2m. One    Direction sat at thirteenth with $18.0m, though all three were beaten by    24-year-old Taylor Swift, who was the top-ranked star with an annual total    of $39.7m.    <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>Touring, recorded-music sales, publishing royalties, and revenue from digital    music and video streaming were all taken into account when the earnings were    calculated, although revenue from sponsorship and merchandise was not.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>The Rolling Stones\u2019 earnings were thanks to a lucrative deal with American    company AEG Live, who allegedly paid the band $80m to secure the promotional    rights to 15 shows in the 2013 50th anniversary tour. The band are rumoured    to have earned a further $5m through their tour partnership with Citi group.    Each show grossed an average of $4.7m<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>Despite their age, the Stones still sold 1.5 million track downloads and sold    300,000 CDs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fleetwood Mac\u2019s presence on the list is due to their 2013 world tour, which    earned them $17.4 million. They also made money from the release of new a    EP, Extended Play, which was released for digital download.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s nationality is more complicated than that of the Rolling Stones.    Original members were British nationals Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Jeremy    Spencer, and Peter Green, who were responsible for the band\u2019s debut album    Albatross in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>They were later joined by McVie\u2019s wife, Christine McVie and American    singer-songwriters Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours, produced in 1977, remains one of the best-selling albums of all time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones are the only British bands to break into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}